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conclusively established that these two were cousins. They either ruled simultaneously (perhaps over different territories) or in rapid succession. If they ruled in succession, it seems more likely that
Shurapala preceded Vigrahapala, since Vigrahapala I and his descendants ruled in unbroken
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succession. Vigrahapala either dethroned
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were the two names of the same person. However, the discovery of a copper plate in 1970 in the
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